KISA Wins Award in Government Innovation Competition: “Expected to Reduce Public Harm”, “Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) has been recognized by the government for its business innovation with the ‘Real-time Voice Phishing Block’ initiative.”,
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, “KISA announced on the 15th that it was selected as an exemplary case and received the Minister of the Interior and Safety Award at the ‘2024 Government Innovation Competition’ hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.”,
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, “The ‘Government Innovation Competition’ aims to discover and disseminate excellent innovation cases across various government levels. Starting this year, it selected outstanding cases in three fields: ▲Government Preparing for the Future ▲Problem-solving Government ▲Digital Government at Work, and picked the final winners.”,
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, “KISA’s case, which uses AI trained with ‘that voice’ to block voice phishing calls in real-time, was recognized for breaking down silos (collaboration) and improving work methods, and was the only case selected as an exemplary one among public institutions under the Ministry of Science and ICT.”,
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KISA Building (Photo: KISA),
, “This case collaborated with the National Forensic Service, among others, and pseudonymized personal information included in actual voice phishing call data for AI training by telecommunications companies to detect and block voice phishing calls. It was highly evaluated for its characteristic of public-private cooperation to eliminate crime prevention blind spots.”,
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, “In addition to KISA, a total of 647 innovation policies from central ministries, local governments, and public institutions participated in the government innovation competition. Out of these, 41 policies were selected as exemplary cases through expert review and online public voting.”,
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, “Kim Joo-young, Director of KISA’s Data Safety and Utilization Division, stated, ‘We expect a significant reduction in public damage with the voice phishing detection and blocking service being applied to the telecom companies’ AI service starting this November,’ and added, ‘We will continue to support the use of pseudonymous data in various fields to protect the public’s lives and property.'”
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